1815.) Weinewright on Education at Cambridge. 303 
II. Medicine. 
1. Chemistry. 6. Theory of physic. 
2. Anatomy. 7. Practice of physic. 
=. Botany.) re" ~~ 8. Surgery. 
4. Materia medica. 9. Clinical surgery. 
5. Midwifery. 4 10, Medical jurisprudence. 
Ill. Law. 
1. Universal history. 3. Civil law. 
2. Scots’ law. 4, Public law. 
IV. Theology. 
1. Divinity. 3. Hebrew. 
_ 2. Church history. 
Now any individual that chooses may attend any one of these 
classes without paying attention to the rest; so that every person 
has it in his power to select those subjects that are most likely to be 
of service to him. The consequence is, that in Scotland every 
country gentleman, every merchant and manufacturer, has enjoyed 
the advantage of a University education. In England, on the con- 
trary, this advantage is confined to a comparatively small number. 
You will find more profound scholars, and perhaps. men of deeper 
science, in England than in Scotland. But in the latter country 
every person has a little, and there is therefore more knowledge 
upon the whole. It would be a prodigious advantage to England if 
this eclectic mode of acquiring knowledge were to be introduced 
into the Universities. But I am sensible that as long as they are 
powerful political engines, and possessed of such prodigious patron- 
age and power, this can never be the case. Science can never 
thrive where it is united to politics: the union is unnatural, de- 
grading, and destructive, 
*,* We cannot dismiss this article without reprobating, in the strongest terms, 
the manner in which the Universities, and other Public Libraries, have availed 
themselves of an Act of Parliament passed in the session before last, reviving an 
obsolete Jaw, whereby authors and publishers are compelled to give 11 copies of 
every book, and of every new edition to which there is avy alteration or addition. 
We forbear Lo notice the injustice of a law which inflicts a severe tax on one set of 
individuals for the.exclusive advantage of another. We shall merely speak of the 
extent to which these public bodies avail themselves of the power vested in thems 
and particularly the richly endowed University of Cambridge, to which more par- 
ticularly literary men are indebted for the revival of this tax. We are informed 
that, with the exception of one or two of the libraries, which affect to omit Novels, 
every book is demanded, however expensive, or useless, or unfit to be placed on 
the shelves for which they are destined, New editions are demanded, however 
small the alteration fromthe former. We know an instance in which the 11 copies 
of a book, price 1/, 10s., were demanded and received in April of the present 
year, and another }1 copies of a new edition in August, There is every reason 
t# believe that the parties who are entrusted to make the demands do not know 
